The task of supporting integrated multi-rate multimedia traffic in a bandwidth
poor wireless environment poses a unique and challenging problem for network
managers. In this paper we propose a novel bandwidth allocation strategy which
partitions the available bandwidth amongst the different traffic classes in a
manner that ensures quality of service (QoS) guarantees for digital video while
minimizing the maximum blocking probability for voice and data connections. At
the connection level, optimum utilization of the reserved bandwidth is achieved
through intra-frame statistical multiplexing, while at the system-level, the
delicate task of partitioning the bandwidth is accomplished by developing an
efficient algorithm which uses traffic parameters consisting only of aggregate
traffic load and the total available bandwidth. The algorithm built on
non-trivial mathematical results, is simple, robust, and well suited for
practical implementations.